Specific Need
Interested in helping with this program in some way?
Volunteer opportunities include:
- For the weekly program: instructors, allies, meal coordinator, meal servers, child care for under age 5, classroom for over age 5 children, clean up.
- For communication and transportation: marketing and public relations opportunities, coordinators for events.
- For organization: curriculum planners, educators/ marketing people, fundraising planners, board members, finance people.
To volunteer contact:
Donna Long 785- 632-7030
Wayne Link 785-632-3658
Mission
Our mission: To improve the lives of people in poverty
by empowering them to build skills for a better life and
to help make a sustainable, educated community in
which everyone can have hope for a better, brighter, healthier future.
Profile
Bridges of Hope is an organization that developed from a training workshop attended by almost 40 people based on the book Bridges out of Poverty. In a series of meetings, the group identified needs in Clay County that Bridges of Hope seeks to address:
1. Communication as to the resources available to help people
2. Relationships and a feeling of belonging and support
3. Hunger and having affordable or available healthy foods
4. Transportation for the public that is regional in nature